Famous Quotes: Age

I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.
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Anyone could be in the orchestra, or sports team, or arts club at my school. It was precisely the kind of inclusivity that now meets with a sort of scorn and derision as a prizes-for-all culture that generates only mediocrity. There's something so insulting about the idea that including lots of people means mediocrity.
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I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.
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The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and America is honored to be their friend.
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Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
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I learned a lot from my Mom. My favorite lesson: remember there is no such thing as a certain way to parent and to remember that you are learning along with your child - it's ok to make mistakes.
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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.
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French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
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I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.
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In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread.
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I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.
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I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.
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When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that's kind of disappointing.
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Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.
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As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?
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No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.
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Life should be great rather than long.
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I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.
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Finality is not the language of politics.
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As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.
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